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S5 E6: The Flyover: The American Revolution

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What did it really take to build a nation?

In this episode, Dale and Brian explore the timeline of the American Revolution—from early unrest to ultimate independence—highlighting the sacrifices, turning points, and people who shaped history. From the first shots at Lexington and Concord to the finality of the Treaty of Paris, they walk through the moments that defined a generation.

Along the way, they reflect on the cost of freedom, the courage of ordinary men, and the reality that this fight was lived out in homes, towns, and everyday life—not just distant battlefields.

Because if we don’t know the story… we can’t remember what matters.


Episode Highlights: 

  • Setting the stage.
  • When did the Revolutionary War start?
  • What is the Treaty of Paris?
  • The flyover.


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This show has been produced by Adkins Media Co.


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We need to remember the price that was paid, the sacrifices made, the reasons they were done, and what surrounds the foundation of our country, uh, but we can't remember it if we don't know it.

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So, why would two guys make comfortable jobs and move across the country and start a business in an industry they don't know, a place they don't know? Could it be successful?

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We're Dale and Brennan Kern. Join us as we share our story and inspire you to become people of impact.

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Welcome to the Impact Without Limits podcast.

SPEAKER_01

What year did the Revolutionary War start? The American Revolution? And what is the Treaty of Paris? Welcome back to the Impact Without Limits podcast. This is Dale Carmen here with my brother Brian. I am in my patriotic garb. For those of you watching on video, you can You're not just in patriotic garb.

SPEAKER_02

You're in patriotic headgear. This is you've taken this to a new level.

SPEAKER_01

I have. Let me check this out on uh if you can see this is a three three-dimensional hat. So sorry for you in Radio Land or Podcast Audio Land, but this is my hat, a three-dimensional hat given to me by uh with an eagle coming out of the front. It looks like a tail coming out of your head and made it halfway through and got stuck. Yeah, yeah. Maybe that's what happened. That is maybe that's what I'm a patron. That is so anyway. Got got my shoes on, I got my socks, my semi-quincentennial socks, my America shirt, semi-quincentennial shirt. I'm ready to go. I see you over there in some red white. You're trying to one up.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, listen, I've got I've got my red, white, and blue on. Today is is Liberty Day. Liberty is important. That's what this was for. Liberty is important. This is also a university where my kids, two of my daughters, go to school. So uh dual purpose today. But today we are talking, uh, we're talking about America 250, the America semi-quincentennial. Um, and we started talking about the Declaration of Independence, and we want to just kind of talk about the American Revolution and the birth of the nation. And there is so much. Again, I just want to put out the caveat. We know we're not experts.

SPEAKER_01

We're grossly unprepared for this.

SPEAKER_02

We are we're it, you know, I'm drowning in the shallow end of the pool as I try and try and dive into this stuff. Um, but there's a drone just flew by our window. That wouldn't have happened in 17th.

SPEAKER_01

No, that wouldn't have happened in 17th.

SPEAKER_02

But we wanted to kind of do um, we're gonna dive into a few of the key moments and battles, but before we did, we thought it would make sense to kind of give an overview of a timeline of the Revolutionary War.

SPEAKER_01

And um Yeah, look, we could spend if we were if we knew enough, we could spend hours upon hours diving into this. And um, but again, our our goal here I I I heard this said, I think it was um Larry Arn, who is the president of Hillsdale College, uh great patriot, a great historian. I think I heard him say uh Americans must remember. We must remember what we were founded on, the principles, the ideals, um the sacrifices made, uh, the things put in place, but we can't remember if we don't know. And the problem we have today is most Americans don't know. Uh, you know, we talked, we had a couple episodes previous talking about the Declaration of Independence and asking the question of how many of you have actually read the Declaration of Independence? And okay, you might say, Yeah, I read it when I was in high school, and for some of you that might be 20, 30, 40 years ago. That's great. But how many have read it recently? How many truly understand what it says? And uh, and now we start looking at, like Brian, you said, the Revolutionary War. Um, what what happened? What was the timeline? What what were the events? Who were the key people? Uh, what was the sacrifice made? Uh so so much around that. We need to know that in order to remember it, in order to preserve it. And um the the two questions we ask at the start of the the the opening of this this episode, I'd ask you to answer it. What year did the revolutionary war start? And what was the Treaty of Par of Paris? Right? What what what was it and what's the impact in American history? And are we going to throw out the right?

SPEAKER_02

I think let's just talk about those because because in essence, that's I'm gonna give away, but that's the bookend of the American Revolution.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_02

Right? And a lot of people, I think, you know, we we talk about July 4th, and we're celebrating the semi-quincentennial is July 4th, the Declaration of Independence as the birth of the nation, but there was fighting prior to that. And yeah, and so the a lot of people would say July 4th, 1776 is when the American Revolution started, but the war actually started in 1775, right?

SPEAKER_01

And most accounts call it April 19th, 1775, which was the battles of Lexington and Concord. Right. And that was the shot heard round the world that we'll dive into. So that's the start of the war was more than a year prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which I think a lot of people may not be aware of that or know or understand that. And then the Treaty of Paris.

SPEAKER_02

And just real quick, you were talking about that. The original fighting wasn't really for independence.

SPEAKER_01

No, yeah, we could dive into that now. Just just as a high level, yeah. So so yeah, think about this. If we're saying the war started, the first uh what's called the first official battle of the war, uh, the battle of luck, battles of Luxin and Concord, April seven April 19th, 1775, from then until we declare independence on July 4th, 1776. So a year and three months, a year and yeah, a year and three months, we weren't fighting for independence. We weren't fighting to be a free and separate nation. We were fighting for representation, we were fighting um to be considered equal British citizens, to be treated fairly, to have representation, right? No taxation without representation. And so for the first year of that battle, you're just you're you're you're fighting to be recognized, yeah, maybe. And that's why the declaration of independence is so striking and so important, because when that and and granted, there was the leaning, there were the people asking for separation, asking to declare independence for you know for months prior.

SPEAKER_02

And you had the meeting of the Continental Congress trying to figure out well, in a year before, July 5th of 1775, so after the the battle started, the the Continental Congress approves or sends out the Olive Branch petition, which is a petition to the king saying, listen, we're loyal citizens. We we want to be um loyalists we you know we we want to be part of the the of Britain, but here are the grievances, right? Here here, I mean, kind of meet us halfway. Like they're they're trying to extend this peace, and it's met with total rejection. And that's why, as we talked about when we talked about the Declaration of Independence, they're saying, Hey, we tried, like we we tried to save this, and you just kept abusing over and over again.

SPEAKER_01

Um Yeah. So as soon as the Declaration of Independence is written, everything changes because now you're not fighting to be recognized as an equal British citizen and to protect your rights as a British citizen, as a loyalist to the king. You are now fighting to be free and independent people, to be free and independent states. Um, and that that is such a huge swing, and that's why that declaration of independence is so powerful.

SPEAKER_02

Um the back end of that, the second question we asked was the Treaty of Paris. Yes. And the Treaty of Paris is uh essentially the end of the American Revolution. It was the treaty signed between Britain and America that officially ended the war and recognized America as an independent country.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and Britain. What year was that, uh guys? One more question. Oh no, one more. We'll pause for a second. What year was the Treaty of Paris signed? What year did the Revolutionary War end? It was 1783. So it was an eight-year war. And it was fought like we and I know we're already off track, but like you've talked about Brian, it was fought in these people's in their cities, in their villages, in their yards, around their homes. Crazy. They lived it. People used to go out and watch the battle. I mean, they still go out and watch the battlefield.

SPEAKER_02

They still had to live. Like they had to, if they were farmers, raise crops, if they were merchants trying to sell things.

SPEAKER_01

The thing was, most of the farmers and most of the merchants were picking up farms and are out fighting the war.

SPEAKER_02

And it's it's crazy. So to today we're gonna do a quick flyover. It's gonna be really high level, and then we're gonna go into not excruciating detail, but dive deep on just a few spots along the way over the next few weeks.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and and and the idea is just to lay the framework of the timeline we're gonna talk about. And I'm on a website, uh, you know, we found this brand called battlefields.org. Yeah, great, great resource. Yeah, I think a lot of good information here, and we're gonna kind of follow along this. So there are there are some events that happened. We say so the war started in 1775, but we're gonna reach back further than that because this was building. There was um, there were tensions building for at least a decade prior. Uh, you had the the French and Indian War um ended in 1763. Interesting enough, I'm looking at that, the Treaty of the Treaty of Paris. So the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, uh, and it also ended the uh the American Revolution. Uh, but but the first one I'm gonna hit on is the Sugar Act. Uh the that's not a real big one, but you start getting these acts, these laws, these uh rules put into place by the British Parliament that started to control um trade, control uh how lives were lived in the colonies. Um and I think the next one that was in in 764, but the next one, oh go ahead.

SPEAKER_02

And and again, as you look through this, you start to see these issues that become part of the Declaration of Independence. This was removed a trial by jury for for certain people that were um involved in smuggling of sugar, right?

SPEAKER_01

Illegal trade print, probably uh I don't know, I didn't dig into this, but maybe trying to get around taxes or find new supplies for sugar, they bring it in. But it removes benefit of trouble. They could be trialed, they could be tried in courts without a jury. Then in 1765, you have the Stamp Act, and that is a tax levied on paper goods and legal documents. And then two days after the Stamp Act is passed, they passed the Quartering Act, which says the colonies must provide housing and food for British troops. So if troops come in, they can come and live in your home. They they can just enter your home and say, we are staying here, they can live in part of your home, they can take over the whole home. So you're just seeing this eroding of the rights of the people that lived in the colonies, the the Americans, the the the Patriots. And you you there's there's this resistance, right? There, there's this uh, you know, how how much of these abuses do we have to take? And when you go look at the grievances or or the statement of facts and the declaration, declaration of independence, you you you can track them back and say, Yep, I see where they're addressing this, I see where they're addressing that.

SPEAKER_02

Um, because so it you you they're living in this spot right now in the late 1760s, early 1770s, where especially in in Boston, they've just got troops in the street, right? And so there's all these people around, and that leads to the conflict that becomes the Boston Massacre in 1770. And we'll we're gonna dive into that one, so I'm not gonna touch on it now, but that's the first time that it's it's one of those galvanizing moments that people start to say, hey, wait, like there's sides here. You're gonna have to pick a side. Are you a loyalist? Are you a patriot? How do you what what's going on? It's like we're not the same, we're not fighting the same on the same side right now. We're fighting against this British occupation.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so right, this is building the the the after the Stamp Act and Quartering Act were passed, then Virginia House challenges the Stamp Act, and and then you get, and a year later, Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, they take it back, but they pass another act that reiterates Parliament's authority over the colonies. So this just keeps building, and then you got to the Boston Massacre. So the year for the Boston Massacre is 1770. So now we've had, you know, from the the Sugar Act in 64, the Stamp Act, Concording Act in 65, five years later, it kind of culminates, and there were there were other events. Like I said, we're doing a flyover, but uh you you had the Boston Massacre, and there were soldiers in Boston, British soldiers. There were um, you know, I I guess what we call them, the the the Americans, the Sons of Liberty, the the Patriots coming by and they they started maybe heckling or or or shouting at dive too deep. We're gonna get into this. Okay. So you have Boston Massacre. Uh and seven in seven, you're right, 1770, and then you fly forward, 1773. You have the uh the Boston Tea Party.

SPEAKER_02

Well, right, the Tea Act, which we'll get into. I was actually I misunderstood that. I thought that was a new tax on tea. It wasn't. We'll get into that in in the next episode. But it starts the Boston Tea Party, which is an act of defiance against the British uh treatment of the colonies. And then once that's done, the British get angry, right? Now the British are really angry. So before they were imposing things, maybe it was more financial and control, but at this point, there's some spite involved. Yes, right. At this point, they're just and it it starts in what becomes known as the intolerable acts, right? They just start to pass these acts that are intolerable, they're they're oppressive, overly oppressive, and spiteful toward the American Patriots.

SPEAKER_01

So uh late 74, uh you have the first Continental Congress uh where the states gather in the representatives gather in Philadelphia. Um 1775, Patrick Henry um gives a speech or writes a speech, liberty or death. And we've heard that, you know, that famous line, give me liberty, liberty or give me death. Then you have this is where we just said, where the the war actually begins. So now 65 to 75, 10 years of these building tensions, building frustrations, the British sending troops who are now living in the cities, in and among the people, and you have colonists. Some of them, like you said, Brian, are loyal to the to the British, right? They're called the Loyalists, and the others are the Patriots or the the colonists who are the separatists. And and all these tensions are building, and on April 18th, um, again, I don't want to get into too much detail, but the the the Americans up in Boston find out that the British troops are moving. They're they're they're advancing out of Boston, and they're moving towards a town called Concord, and you have the the famous ride of Paul Revere. And that's on April 18th, 70, 1775, and then that led to April 19th. Battle of Lexington and Concord. Battle of Lexington and Concord, which was officially the shot that's the shot her.

SPEAKER_02

The official quote unquote start of the war. A big one. A couple months later, George Washington gets appointed commander in chief, so he takes over as leader.

SPEAKER_01

Do you know the day that happened? June 15th. Nope. July 3rd. Oh, was it? That's so it's either July 3rd's either the day he was. July 3rd is when he arrives.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I use appointed arrives the third. Yep. Which is a great day. That's an important day, folks. That's my birthday. So even still, so Washington's appointed commander. He he he arrives and assumes command July 3rd. Two days later, that's when the Continental Congress sends what we call, or we didn't call what we mentioned, the all of branch petition. Still seeking peace, still seeking, hey, we want to be part of this nation. They're not seeking independence, but that's when we start to see this huge conflict building, and the the British are just unwilling. They're gonna assert their dominance, right? They're the greatest power in the world, they're the lone superpower at this point. They had just defeated the French, and they're they're like, we're gonna extend our dominance.

SPEAKER_01

So what what do you do? You you you move forward. So as it's playing out in the beginning, there was a lot centered in the the northeast, and obviously a lot happens down in the south as well. But um George Washington, when he took command of the army on July 3rd, he's stationed outside of Boston. And Britain had control of Boston, they had all their troops there, so the British owned Boston, Washington's outside of Boston, and um they it was just kind of they just they sat there, all right? The Washington's outside of Boston trying to keep the troops from moving out, and and understand Boston is kind of a peninsula, and there is a thin neck of land that led into the mainland, and um Washington's troops couldn't go in to necessarily battle them, but they were positioned that the the British didn't come out and they end up sitting there through most of the winter, and in the spring, the the British uh or or the the uh colonists in Washington end up taking some high ground. Oh, I forget the name of the town. I should know this, so I was just reading about it, but they take some high ground um just outside of Boston that gave them leverage in the city, and the British troops retreat. So we actually get Boston, the British leave, and then Washington moves to New York because he's assuming the British are heading to New York. So you're now in the summer of 76, and um we're holding New York, which was on Manhattan Island, and Washington had troops on Long Island, but the British are able to come in and they set up station on Staten Island, right? And if you look at maps in these places, they're not that far apart, and they're all right there. I mean, just you think about that.

SPEAKER_02

Can you imagine you're setting up this encampment of troops? Hundreds or actually probably thousands of troops are camped, and you're just staring across this valley or river or whatever, and you see the enemy there, right? And and it's the enemy, but in some cases, these are people that knew each other. Uh you know, reading or actually watching a video they were talking about in the battle of of Bunker Hill, which we'll get into, you know, one of the British soldiers gets out the telescope to look across and he sees his brother-in-law over there, right? And his commander saying, you know, are they gonna fight? And he says, Well, I can't speak for everybody, but that guy right there, he's my brother-in-law, and he's gonna fight till he's dead. Right? I mean, just crazy. I mean, we we know that in the Civil War, but in this, this was still kind of a civil war.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, because like we said, you had the loyalists and and uh several of the people who were loyal to the crown took up sides with the The the British Army. I did fly over Bunker Bunker Hill. I'm sorry about that. No, we're we're gonna come back to it. We'll we'll get into it. Um but what so so this leads up, and again, I'll be careful we don't dive too deep, but it it's something I I know I've been reading this book 1776 by David McCullough, which focuses on the year 1776. But I would have figured that by the title, but I wouldn't have known for certain. I appreciate the clarity. But it's I mean, literally, it doesn't. I I was hoping it was like kind of start there and carry through, but no, it's just 1776. But any anyway, we were talking as we were prepping for this, Brian, as Washington's in in New York, and there's this moment where the British Navy shows up, and then they have German fleets with them, the Hessian soldiers, and I imagine these troops standing on Long Island and seeing a hundred ships with cannons and soldiers sailing into the harbor. Oh my goodness. I mean, we were battling the world superpower. Yeah, I can't imagine. But but a key moment happens there in the summer of 76, one of the key key moments in our victory, and it was George Washington the retreat retreating out of New York City. We lost a battle on Long Island, then we retreated.

SPEAKER_02

And that retreat was one of the greatest victories in the American Revolution. And the reason we say that is because he saved himself and the army to fight another day. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_01

I just so you go through the rest of 76, the end of 76, and the Americans are are they're kind of in a tailspin. They're losing. I mean, we're winning some battles here and there, but most of it was most of the 76th.

SPEAKER_02

Washington, Washington's the commander-in-chief, and the British know if they can beat Washington, they they essentially win, right? You you you you you it certainly would have changed the course of of the war. It's cutting the head off the snake, so to speak. And nothing. Washington is kind of retreating across New Jersey throughout seven the fall of 76. And at some point he's like, We've we're we're running thin. Like, we can't just keep retreating and and losing. And that leads to the crossing of the Delaware and the Battle of Trenton. Yeah, December 26th. Christmas of 1776.

SPEAKER_01

They left Christmas night and the attack happened the day after December 26th. So that's the end of 76. And then you come back, you said Brian, they they attack uh withdraw, then they attack again the Battle of Princeton in 77, and there are so many battles. We we kind of got to just fly by most of those. Um, there are some key ones. Uh Philadelphia Falls in 77. Yeah. Uh we have a big victory in the Battle of Saratoga. Saratoga. And who do you do you remember who the hero, the American hero was Benedict Arnold. He wasn't the American hero in the Battle of Saratoga.

SPEAKER_02

And if you're listening to this and you've heard the term Benedict Arnold, you I would assume most people know that it's it's a traitor, right? It's assumed was somebody who is a traitor, uh a turncoat. And Benedict Arnold didn't turn on the Americans. He he didn't until like midway or later into the war, he was an American hero for a period of time. Yep. Just crazy. I'll tell you what. That was that one was a mistake. I think if he could go back in time, he might redo it.

SPEAKER_01

He might have picked wrong on that one. So now you get to the end of 77 and you head into the the winter that I think everybody's probably heard about with Washington and his army in Valley Forge. Valley Forge is a small town in southern Pennsylvania, southeastern Pennsylvania, not too far outside of Philadelphia. And um they had a long, brutal winter there, and just that that Washington was able to sustain his troops through conditions like they went through. They some of them didn't have shoes, some of them didn't have coats, they're they were staying in tents, many of them. They they built housing for some, but some of them were in tents. And I say housing, I'm just talking, you know, very simplistic rustic structures, uh, went through a very rough winter.

SPEAKER_02

Um and and while it's rough, I I think they said there were like up to 12,000 people camped there, and like you said, they're Washington's pleading with the Congress. Give us more supplies, give us more money. You gotta send send reinforcements, and he's not getting what he needs. At the same time, they bring in this what is it, Baron, uh Baron von Steuben. Von Steubenville. They bring in Baron von Steuben. It probably is, to be honest with you. I've never looked at them where Steubenville came from, but it probably was this guy. But he comes in and trains up these soldiers. And you know, a lot of the the reports that I read said that the army that came out in the spring of 78 was completely different. They fought with more uniformity. It wasn't just this militia, it was it was a well-trained organized group. So while that winter was awful and and hard, it was also a time of refinement that made them better for the coming battles.

SPEAKER_01

Yep. And that's also when Lafayette joined uh Washington the troops as well. So now you're into 78. So we're three years into the fighting, two years since the Declaration of Independence. And right, these battles just keep going back and forth. And and I mean, the amazing thing is we're still losing battles.

SPEAKER_02

Like you would say, a lot of people would say Saratoga is a point when the war turned and it started, you know, the Americans showed that they could win, but we're still losing things, and and again, we're not just losing a battle on a distant battlefield somewhere, they're losing their towns. Yes, like the places that they lived and called home are being taken over by the British. And you get into late 78, the British are uh take Savannah, right? I mean, they just keep capturing towns, um but the Americans now have some victory, so it's not just all losing, all retreating, it's kind of back and forth. They're trading.

SPEAKER_01

Right. Think about it. Every time you lose a battle, soldiers get disheartened. They they're not, in many cases, not getting paid. Don't know what you said. There's disease, there's filth in the camps. It's it's not a pleasant thing. It is hard to keep the people together and keep them fighting. Um I don't know. So I think I think we're gonna cruise through 79. There's just battle after battle. I I see a name jump out of me, John Paul Jones. And uh you know, we capture an English ship. Yeah, I think I have the picture of that in my office. I'll have to take a picture of it and bring it in. Um you you talked about Nathaniel Green, right?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Nathaniel Green's a name that as I did more research, he wasn't I remember the name, but I didn't remember much. He ends up becoming a great general in this. Second is at the end of the war, kind of considered second in command only to Washington, but he is personally guaranteeing all of these debts to get supplies and things, and after the war, he loses all of his money. I mean, he becomes indebted and broke because of this war. Like he's personally I j I can't even comprehend this. And so he's he's broke, he goes to Georgia, he's working on a plantation. I think somebody gives him some land and he ends up working next to a friend, and he's working on that guy's farm at 43 years old. He dies of a heat stroke, sunstroke, whatever. I mean, that's pretty tragic. This is a guy that had that not happened, could have been a president, could have been. I mean, he was he was a great leader. Huge and it's unfortunate.

SPEAKER_01

Think about that. He sacrificed everything everything. Well, when we say right the the declaration, right? Yes, our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor. I mean, he gave it all. Absolutely. He he he certainly gave up his fortunes. Uh to some level, you could say he he he pledged his sacred honor because he put his name and himself on the line and collected this debt to help fund the this revolution that he believed in to free the states, and and then he ended up dying, a working man in a field.

SPEAKER_02

We owe such a debt of gratitude to these men. It just is amazing. So, anyway, we started to dive deep. 1780, tide's turning, we're winning more battles. Um things are are starting to look up. 1781. I was there anything else in 88.

SPEAKER_01

No, I the next one I I picked out, and I don't even know much to say about this, but the Articles of Confederation are adopted in in uh early March of 1781.

SPEAKER_02

Right, which again, I'm gonna go somewhat remedial. The Articles of Confederation are the precursor to the Constitution. They were the form of government, but at this time it wasn't federalism, right? It wasn't a strong federal government and then individual state governments that were right.

SPEAKER_01

It didn't form a nation, right? It formed an alliance of individual states. Yeah, states that that were working together. Um battles continue. Uh in I I think a big one is the siege of Yorktown in September of 81, where um you know Cornwallis, the the British had owned Yorktown in Virginia, and um that was a stronghold for them, and we actually siege it when Cornwallis surrenders, which really was that was that was that was kind of the victory. That was the one when that was the big victory. When when when we get Yorktown, that that you you could say the war doesn't officially end for another year and a half, uh, but that that was a big turning point. And all the while, Brian, we we kind of glossed over it. We still don't have New York. No, New York is New York City is in the hands of the British through this entire war. We were not able to take it back. No, until the war is ended. And we lost Philadelphia, I'll be honest with you. I don't know when or if we got Philadelphia back.

SPEAKER_02

I I mean, so the the end of the war we talked about with the Treaty of Paris was September. I mean, I know it's back now, but September 3rd of 1783 is the Treaty of Paris. The British don't evacuate New York City until November 25th. Yeah. So I mean, like you you talked about Cornwallis surrendering, kind of that that is almost two years before we get New York City back. Crazy. Yeah, I just it's just amazing. And then uh December 23rd, 1783, Washington signs off as commander-in-chief of the army, and he believes retires to his home in Mount Vernon.

SPEAKER_01

He wants to go back to Mount Vernon, but that's for sure. So that that that's that's our flyover, guys. That kind of I don't know. Maybe a lot of you know that stuff. I'm gonna guess most of you don't. Um, but I'm gonna come back to what I said earlier. We need to remember the price it was paid, the sacrifices made, the reasons they were done, and what surrounds the foundation of our country. Uh, but we can't remember it if we don't know it. So we need to learn it, challenge you, go out and and do some research. Hope this inspires you to dive into a little bit more. There are plenty of books. The problem is most of them are like seven or eight hundred pages.

SPEAKER_02

I have I'm in the middle of an 800 pager right now on Washington. And I say the middle of does page 50 count as the middle of an 800 pager.

SPEAKER_01

Oh man. Go go and and find your source. Like you can go find people that that are writing history, and there's always the ability to flavor it from one side or another. Um this is American history. Don't don't read it from somebody that hates America.

SPEAKER_02

If if I can put just one resource out there, if you I mean, we talked about some of the shows, and we we could come up with a whole, maybe we we do post somewhere some just resources, but just one. If you go to that whitehouse.gov America 250, that's great. This the story of America, it is so well done.

SPEAKER_01

They partnered with Hillsale Collins. 10 or 12 short videos?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, four, maybe fourteen. Uh, but just videos that go into some of these. Seven, ten, twelve we're gonna talk about. Yeah, I mean, it's two hours total. And to be honest with you, it would probably give you a better overview of the the revolution and the formation of America than a lot of the history courses we took in store.

SPEAKER_01

I'm gonna guess you watch those videos, you're gonna be uh in the top two, three percent of people educated on our American history in the country.

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And it's free, it's out there, short and simple. You can watch 10 minutes a day. Um no, it's it's whitehouse.gov uh forward slash freedom250. So we'll put a link to the things that we've mentioned here, as well as uh to the book that Dale mentioned, and we'll put all that in the show notes. Uh, there's just some great resources, but listen, this is the semi-quincentennial, America 250, the supercentennial. It only happens once, whatever you want to call it. I mean, this is a time to wear a hat with an eagle flying through. Look at this hat. This is a time to be patriotic, to appreciate, and as Dale said, remember what we have in this great nation.

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This little tail flaps every time I move my head, it flips up and down. That's pretty like the eagle's taking off.

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All right, with that, come back next week. We're gonna dive into the battle of no the Boston Massacre in the United States.

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Boston Tea Party. TA. Have a great week. God bless America.

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This is a Fred Call of me reminding you that faith looks up, hope looks ahead, and love looks all around to see whom it can help. Good day.